MANILA, Philippines -- A pro-life lawmaker Wednesday sought to penalize voyeurism with the use of mobile phones by filing a bill that will criminalize the video recording of ?private acts," possession, exhibition and sharing through the media of such clips.

Buhay party-list Representative Irwin Tieng's House Bill No. 4315 sought to penalize ?mobile phone peeping Toms? with imprisonment of as long as six years and a fine of as much as P500,000.

?It is ironic that the technology that is connecting Filipinos is also the same technology that is robbing the innocence and debasing our youth who are being exposed as sex objects via mobile phones,? Tieng said.

Tieng said an increasing number of high school and college students are finding their sexual acts being the subject of ?video scandals? already proliferating in the Internet and among mobile phone users. The titles of the video clips even carry the names of schools or places the youth go to.

?What is more disgusting is that these recordings are caused by or with authority of their lovers or partners,? Tieng said.

?Whether it is triggered by a lover's revenge or just cheap publicity stunt, the same is against morality and ethics,? he added.

While Tieng's pronouncements centered on the use of cellular phones with video cameras for voyeurism and amateur pornography, the bill didn't specify that the recordings should be made by mobile phones.

?It shall be unlawful for any person without the consent of all the parties to any private act or acts including but not limited to sexual acts to record or attempt to record the same in any form and for whatever purpose,? said section one of the bill.

The bill also penalizes mere possession and sharing of the said video clips. It, however, exempts from the prohibition video recordings that may be used as evidence in any civil or criminal investigation or trial.

It appears to have a retroactive effect on illegally recorded videos.

?It shall be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the act or acts penalized in the preceding sentence to knowingly possess any video tape, disc record, or any other such record or copies thereof, of any private act secured either before or after the effectivity of this act in the manner prohibited herein,? the section added.

The criminalization of video voyeurism carries with it a penalty of six months to six years in prison and a fine of P100,000 to P500,000.

The bill is co-authored by Tieng's colleagues in Buhay party-list -- representatives Rene Velarde and Carissa Coscolluela.

?This is considered the highest form of invasion of privacy of the offended party. Such violation is condemnable and needs to be penalized in its highest degree,? Tieng said.